Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about making friends.

Hey everyone, how are you all doing this week? If you started school, how is that going? I know some of you have started and some of you are about to start

this week after Labor Day. So good luck with that. So since most of you are headed back to school

and I coach on this topic quite often, I wanted to add this episode topic to the back to school

series. And friends are a big part of your lives. Friends are probably

one of the most important parts of my life. As humans, we are social creatures. I love loving people

and I love my friends. We all want connection and love and we all want to be light, right? We all want to feel light. Those feelings just

feel really good. Friends are a really great way to feel connection and love one another,

and really they are our first experiences with relationships outside of our families. Friendships

and making friends can also be very tricky

and intimidating and there is a lot of anxiety that comes with friends, right? Things change over

the summer. People move away. People have moved in. And so friendships are very transient sometimes.

Sometimes you don't get along with someone

or they've made another friend. And so friendships change from time to time. So today, I'm just

going to give you a few tips on how to make friends and better the relationships with your

friends that you do have. Okay, so number one tip for making

friends or keeping your friends is accept them for who they are. All right, many times in friendship,

we have our own ideas about how the other person should act, all right? We have expectations of them, and we have our own ideas about how the other person should act. We have expectations of them and we have

our own beliefs about the instructions that they should know, like they should be able to read

our mind about all these instructions that they should do in order to be our friend.

And we get so focused on what our friends are not

doing right or not meeting our expectations that we cause a lot of pain for ourselves

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